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Old Tue Oct 23, 2007, 10:10am
Ref Ump Welsch
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Originally Posted by jimpiano
Most newscasts are closed captioned via the written scripts fed to the anchors via the teleprompter.
Newscasts that do not utilize real-time captioning are doing this. This leaves out the banter between the anchor and the weatherperson or the sports anchor, or the live feeds. Not really 100 percent accessible to Deaf people. You'll have to excuse my rantings on this captioning topic because I do have a hearing loss myself and use captioning all the time.